The Power Of Discipline

The Power of Discipline

When our ancestors started thinking about life and tried to understand how to make the best out of it plenty of virtues arose from their thinking. Each virtue could make you a better individual towards society while feeling great about yourself. The virtue that stuck with me the most from all the manuscripts found is Discipline.

The Power of Discipline

Discipline is a fascinating subject in my opinion and it can be used in anything you do. Most people use it in health and fitness in order to have a healthy lifestyle by going to the gym and eating healthier foods. Others use it at work. Projects always have a specific deadline that you need to have in mind. If you don’t meet it then your boss might even fire you! Of course there are a lot of examples like these but you get the idea.

For Bloggers or any other content creators like YouTubers, Authors or Photographers for example, discipline is crucial. If you want your followers to keep following your journey and even promote it to others you have to be consistent. You have to keep posting content every 2-3 times a week or daily depending on what you do. Thus in order to stay consistent the secret ingredient is discipline. It’s what will remind you and push you to get up and create something instead of sitting all day long watching pointless TV shows.

The Power of Discipline

On the other hand there are going to be some of those days when you cannot be bothered to do anything. Every now and then this is totally understandable. We are human beings and we cannot be perfect in everything. Either you are feeling too lazy that day or you are really exhausted from yesterday’s chores. Rest and relax that day to charge your batteries but make sure you don’t fall into the trap of resting the next day too. 2 or even more days in a row will create a bad habit because you will like the idea of not doing anything.

The Power of Discipline

Now let’s talk about some practical tips to help you to be disciplined with your writing.

First of all in order to have discipline in writing you need to write about something you are passionate about. Otherwise you won’t care in the first place and will not be bothered at all. When you decide your niche create an actionable schedule for yourself. Base that schedule of yours on how much you can write and how often you can post. It’s your blog and you can do whatever you want anyway. Therefore why not use that to your advantage? However, even though it’s your blog and you don’t have anyone ordering you around, mark on a calendar specific dates as deadlines for your blog posts. Having that pressure will boost your willingness to write.

The next step is removing any distractions because they are the ultimate enemies of discipline. They can seduce you to stop what you are doing and just chill while browsing posts which you might not even care about. In addition to the previous paragraph about the resting days if it’s possible on those days you are resting try to write a few lines or even better a few paragraphs. The result is the last thing you need to worry about. Even if the whole document you have created is not good enough in the end you still wrote something. That will force you to keep the momentum going and stick to the promise you have made to yourself and to your readers. Last but not least symbols or reminders can help you a lot with motivation. It can be posters of other role models of yours, some awards which you have received because of your hard work or a piece of paper with future goals you might have about your blog.

The Power of Discipline

Discipline is probably the best virtue/skill everyone needs to work on. It can help you be the best version of yourself, create more content and be proud of yourself along the way. Don’t neglect it, use the practical tips above to help you out and have the end goal in mind to stay disciplined.

This is a guest post written by Vasilis Stefanou, who is an author, men’s coach and CEO of the www.thelifeupgrades.com. In the website he helps people improve their way of life in every aspect of it. When he isn’t creating content for the website he likes to study, hang out with friends or exercise.

Thanks for writing about something that doesn’t get a lot of attention. I always find I work better at night as I have less distractions- but then I’m so tired during the day! It’s important to set aside the time and take the distractions away to really produce good quality work!

I definitely agree with what you’re saying! Discipline can be used in everyone’s life. I can completely relate to the consistency of posting that you talked about. That was what made me drift away from my blog for away, then I decided to recommit to posting 2-3 times a week. Sometimes it’s hard, but you have to push yourself, and even use that rest day as motivation to get it done.

I love the tips herein. You definitely should start sharing your post on the Tip Tuesday Link Party (open until Friday). I am sure that my party guests will also find this of much interest.Elise Cohen Ho recently posted..#TipTuesday Link Party #7

What an appropriate read for me right now. Discipline and adhering to my new posting schedule is my #1 goal right now. When I’m on a deadline I have to eliminate all distractions so I can concentrate completely on my project. I love the tip about surrounding yourself with symbols/reminders or motivators of why you’re doing this and where you hope to go. The discipline of consistently showing up and writing great posts to deliver value is my greatest challenge I’m working on right now. Excellent reminders!Mallory recently posted..4 Downtown Raleigh Restaurant Ideas for Pre-Concert Dinner

I’m not too good at discipline these days. After having to stick to a routine, because of the children, for longer than most, I enjoy the freedom of doing what I want when I want.Sue Bride recently posted..Outsource Explosion, Theme Change, PAC Knows Book

I have no clue as to how I’ve been able to maintain blogging for so many years and starting over with a fairly new blog since 2015. I’ve had my struggles but I keep going knowing I have a goal. I won’t stop until I reach it.

Great post. It’s so true how you really have to discipline yourself when it comes to your blog. It won’t happen over night, no, but you still need to dedicate time to it. Now that the kids are out of school, and eat up my time during the day, I’ve been staying up 2 hours or more after everyone goes to bed, just to get stuff done!Sarah recently posted..Flower Fun For All Ages!

Hello Mandy, Nice to meet Vasilis here today! I really enjoyed his post-The power of discipline! Oh Yeh there are plenty of distractions here online HUH? The important thing is to get a schedule down and stick to it!

Good to see you here. When it comes to discipline, I do think I have a handle on it. I had my own off line business for years and online for about 7 years. When it comes to having your own business, there is no room for distractions.

Social media can pull one down a rabbit hole but I have certain times that I visit to keep up and that only lasts for 10 minute intervals.

I know my friends and family still don’t get the point after all these years, but it is not my monkeys and not my circus. Do I sound harsh? Maybe, but I do have to get things done before any leisure time.

Hi Donna, thanks for visiting. I think having a business really helps you to learn discipline. I have an offline business too and it has made me much more disciplined online as well. Very good point to make.

Hello Mandy,
Discipline in anything brings success. This will be the key point in any work. Here is the detailed saying on the power of discipline which inspired me a lot.sandeep recently posted..Top 5 Motorola Smartphones to buy in 2017

I agree with you that being able to remove distractions is an important task. After all, we are only human and if we leave the distractions there, we are no doubt going to need to put in effort to stop ourselves from being distracted, so it’s better to just remove the distraction altogether!Barry recently posted..THE 5 TOP TIPS YOU NEED TO PICK THE PERFECT DIAMOND

Hi Mandy and Vasilis,
Great article about something most people do not know generally about. “Discipline is probably the best virtue/skill everyone needs to work on. It can help you be the best version of yourself, create more content and be proud of yourself along the way” If you study people who are very successful it is because they are disciplined in the way they go about building their business. Think of Mohammad Alli. Everyday training as hard as he possibly could. He was the best at what he did. World Champion. One word – disciplined.Kathryn Maclean recently posted..Social Media Sites 7 Ideas to add Pinterest and Instagram

Discipline is essential indeed in our lives
I personally try to be very disciplined but just like you said I fall back
It’s not easy to stay correct all the time
Thanks for the tips, they will really helpNgumabi recently posted..How to eliminate negative self-talk (when you’re alone)

Great tips here. I totally agree that discipline can be applied to nearly anything if you want to be successful at it. For blogging, especially if you work a full-time job, posting 2-3 times a week can be tough. But I think it’s worth it. Goods tips on how to stay disciplined and passionate.

Cannot agree enough with this post! Discipline is really crucial for any goal you may want to achieve. I know as a new blogger it hasn’t always been easy to stay consistent, but I’m learning as I go. I definitely have noticed a difference since I’ve started becoming more consistent and serious about posting on a weekly basis and constantly updating my social meadia. Such great tips in this post!

Hi Shauna, thanks for visiting. Yes, a posting schedule is essential especially if you want your blog to become popular and well read. People like to know there will be fresh content when they visit. And see a reply to their comment!!

Great tips! I always find that I am also best motivated and disciplined with the proper timing. I have to set deadlines weekly to know when I need to have something done and that always helps motivate me!

Your suggestions are excellent. One thing I use is a timer to keep me on tract. It’s one of the best habits I’ve gotten myself into. We often don’t realize how we distort time. A project may “seem” to take forever but if you time yourself, you’ll see how much you get done and even complete! Wonderful post , thank you!Lesly recently posted..The Sublime Life of Sue Bride

Hi Lesly, thanks for visiting. I think you are absolutely right. At times we might think we’ve been working on something all day too but if we take out the breaks, the telephone ringing, the making a cup of coffee etc etc we find next to no time spent actually working!

Important suggestions about how to stay disciplined. I have no problem being disciplined within a project, when I have a definite goal and a specific deadline. The tasks just get done. However, just to write consistent blog posts, to send consistent emails to my lists and to post consistently on social media would be my next big discipline. I tend to take on too much and do not have enough hours in the day to do it all.
I know – “outsource”. That is really my next goal.

Honestly, I’m a person who love freedom so I don’t like anyone put any rule or discipline on me, and even if I, myself hate putting rule.

Living without any rule, however, we look like an animal. I’ve done the most stupid and crazy things that I ever did in my life. What’s more, I lake of achieving my goal and allowed procrastination cover my daily routines.

We sometimes should keep maintaining our own discipline and that is good idea to care and maintain standard of our life.

Hi Kimsea, thanks for visiting. I’m doing well, thank you for asking! Hope you are good too. I think discipline is something we can choose for ourselves, everyone has their own discipline they instill.